Skiwi. (Central Plateau) Tongariro Forest Park, North Island, New Zealand
By Punga and Paua on 26-Nov-11. Waypoint GC3839V

CACHE IS ARCHIVED. It does not exist anymore. No more logs accepted.

This one took us a little while to find, originally thinking that we needed to pop our hands down a rather deep hole... We were just overthinking it a little bit! Thanks for the hide.

This one took us a little while to find, originally thinking that we needed to pop our hands down a rather deep hole... We were just overthinking it a little bit! Thanks for the hide.

Gone Skiing.....Archived.

Leuk gedaan, een favo.
tftc

Well camouflaged so took us some time to find.

Waitangi Day. On a road trip and heading toward Tongariro National Park. The plan is to visit the Chateau and Tangiwai, but secretly I have cache business.

This hide had us a little bit confused at first as we tried to apply the hint. Eventually, Mum did what she does best; she found the cache hidden exactly as described. TFTC.

Very good idea and a nice Picture Stop! TFTC

Found this one during our month long campervan/"Road trip" vacation in New Zealand. It was a wonderful experience driving around this beaurtiful country.

This one was found on a day driving from Tongariro to Koitiata

Thanks to Punga and Paua.

Our find # 11803

NO, actually the cache shouldn't be under that pile of rocks! Cache is still there where it should be. Pile of rocks was probably hiding something unmentionable and has now been removed.

This entry was edited by Punga and Paua on Sunday, 02 February 2014 at 20:24:35 UTC.

Quickly Found.

Followed directions from the pics, found a pile of rocks which should have had a cache under it but no container to be seen for me today hope i just missed it and it's still there?!

#5074. Found after a short search. Nice signs. TNLNSL. TFTC.

First break on trip to Wellington. Repay your visits to my caches. TFTC. ps Have a nice XMas P&P.

We have GPS device but not a smart phone so we could not remember what the photo looked like. Found it eventually, obviously beginners not able to keep up with the quick find brigade.

Bushed for a moment in the wet. tftc

A quick drive by in the rain TFTC

Without spoiler pic it took some minutes to find the right bush. TFTC

A quick cache and dash as the day ends.
TFTC P&P

We found this cache while our 3,5-week journey through New Zealand. What an amazing country. Sorry for this short log, but time is short and we would see so more things. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Germany. AchSu

We found SKIWI but the cache was very good hidden. Finally everything was clear and we were able to log.

NZ#45
MTFTC fhoernchen

Took a bit of beating bushes to find

While motorhoming around New Zealand, we passed thru here on our way to Taupo. Cold and wet today, so this was a quick park and grab. Deciding which kiwi hole was the problem.

Nice hide

NZ no 22 4 me

Found after a weekend on whakapapa doing an Alpine awareness course. Great course and a good way to end the trip. TFTC

11992... Skiwi pass for a quick find, found on our way south, great views from here, TFTC.

Wanted to put a cache here years ago, but too far from home...so glad to see P&P have
The sign certainly has gone through different stages of decor over time .
Was fooled at 1st by a bit of a red herring and thought it could have been muggled, so searched a bit further only to finally trust the GPS (spot on!)and return to the original spot to take a better look, and yes- there it was TFTC!

Found it easily on second pass by - was just blind in pouring rain and freezing cold earlier in the day! TFTC TNLN Sorry for late logging, but catching up on some saved logs after hectic time. Cheers
Shellnz

45.000 km around the world with stops in Dubai, Bangkok, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Thank you for placing the cache at this place.
Unfortunately it has been raining a lot.

Nice hide and a nice skiwi.

Mostly easy find, but we also found lots of rocks and other great places it could be hidden. Me and the kids picked up half a big black bag of rubbish. Rubbish makes me mad...
TFTC

Lots of false rock hiding places!Prefer the online sign to the real one. LOL

On the way North this way as Desert Road closed
Easy find while the snowplough driver slept in his cab
- Cross GC

Another the wife couldn't find, but daughter had it in hand. Sped past the spot initially, had to turn around and the sign was quickly spotted

What a fun little hide. Had the prize in hand only after a few minutes. Signed the log and left a brand new Tribal Cross TB to start its world wide tour.

TFTC

Great stop on the way to Tauranga, TFTC TNLN

Cool sign! Cool exchange toys for jnr 3yo! Great photo op on clear day like today

Found after the annual trip to the mountain. TFTC

Quick find. No snow on the Mountain, realy strange to see at this time of year, usally has a bit up there.
TFTC

I arrived in New Zealand for the first time yesterday. For a crazy 3 days of caching.
A friend, stairman, and I found a few yesterday on our way south as we had a particular cache in mind for this week-end.
Goal achieved and now to find quite a few more to find. [^]
Love the countryside.
Thanks for the cache.

This entry was edited by Brother Colin on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 00:48:22 UTC.

Nice views! Easy find...TFTC

We pulled up behind a vehicle and felt sure it was a fellow cacher. If it was, they didn't sign the log, so I guess they were photographing a somewhat murky and cloud-covered volcanic landscape. The tops of the mountains are visible but cloud obscures the lower slopes. Looks quite bizarre. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Monday, 01 April 2013 at 09:50:47 UTC.

a small search due to many other rocks in the area before we found it Many Thanks

Found on our way crossing the northern island.

TFTC

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our New Zealand tour back in 2013.
DK

I know this log is very late!!
But on the holliday the internet connection not was very well, so i would have done it when i got home. but i have been so busy!!
So now i am looking at my GPS, and se the caches i missed to log
thanks for this cache

It's not too cold at this time of year, so skiwi didn't have his (her?) scarf and woolly hat on today. Felt a bit conspicuous grovelling around on the ground with traffic roaring past. Luckily traffic was fairly sparse. TNLN TFTC

A quick and easy find and a great view of the Mt's.

Found it but Skiwi might of turned into a hippy over summer

Nice little trick with a few other placements took tb to keep his journey alive. TFTC

A few moments search in widening circles soon revealed the prize. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(2162)

Great chance to combine a Kiwi picture with a cache! Tftc

Goldielover and I stopped here this morning on our way up the mountain but never thought about the cache. After a big day up there we stopped here again to find the cache. After a couple of false starts we managed a find. Cache in great condition.
TFTC

Found with stairman1 while on our holidays. We took some photos of the mountain this morning but didn't realise there was a cache right here . We came back this afternoon and after a few red herrings stairman1 located the container. Log is nice and dry. Signed our names and placed a tb we had brought over from Australia. Thanks Punga & Paua.

Great place to stop, photo opportunities all around here. TFTC

We were heading South accompanied by FMZ to undertake some jet boating on the Whanganui River and decided to take a small detour to find this. As it was late at night we had no problems with passing traffic and it was a reasonably quick find. Cache was dry and in good order. The logging of this find is a little delayed as we thought that we had already logged it but is turns out there is another cache with the same name. TFTC.

Great spot for another angle on the moutains.

Nice find on a bit of a geocaching trip to the north.

Great weather and some good caches

Soon found. SL TFTC

Traveling through New Zealand in February with the Campervan we visited your Cache.
Thanks for showing us this place.
Took a picture of the one in the other direction without skiers
TFTC Mammut75 with LumpiMaus / Austria

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Awesome title, knew exactly where it was immediately.

As soon as I read the name of this cache i knew exactly where it was have driven past and talked about this great sign many, many times. Thanks

...just before leaving.. we found this one... thanks!

#571 Another Found on our trip trough New Zealand - nice spot to take a Kiwi-Sign-Picture
TFTC Doro & Marco

Great views of the mountains from this cache. TFTC Cheers SiLiRy

Found with bkj97. No snow, no skis, no kiwis..... just a cache. T4TCSL

Looked in too many spots until LBH pointed me in the right direction. TFTCSL

TFTC. Managed to use the ski lift today up Mt Ruapehu. A nice quick find.

XC and TK out on a cache maintenance trip... Stopped here to get this one off the not found list.
TFTC #1517

Gut gefunden.

A great find. Often driven passed but not had time to stop. Today was the day and nearly gave up but geo husband said lets give it more time and searched more thoroughly where the GPS indicated and soon found the cache. Was distracted by a hole and rocks near the sign that looked like the perfect spot!
TFTC

Out for a bit of Xmas Day caching. Took a bit of searching in the wrong spot before spotting the cache in the super obvious spot, so no problems with the hide at all. TFTC!!!

TFTC
Gruß Frodo32

No luck today. A bit wet at GZ and plenty fo rubbish too. Next time.......

Found it on our road trip to north.

TFTC

Hmmm... without the additional hint on my Garmin it wasn´t that easy... tomorrow a new chance... but when I interpret the hint right, is the terrain val not too low???

Greetz dunestar

Stopped in on our road trip down south. Credit to Greenslime for locating it.

Pretty easy park and grab. Cache was in good condition despite the battering it probably got over winter.

I just had to stop at this one:) SL! Nik from PT13

Found it. Since I live in snow country in the USA, I really enjoyed Ollie! Took a pic of the sign which I can't wait to show my friends back home.....know they'll love it!
Thanks for a fun cache!

... found it ! ... a kiwi with a view ! ... nice. ... on an afternoon picture takin' drive through the national park. ... a very scenic place even tho the weather was quite mixed up ... one moment sun and one moment drizzle with a chilly wind. ... a very alpine feel to the area. ... TFTH

Yay for me

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Nice Place . Cache is ok! Tftc!

Waaay too much rain to look longer than 30 seconds lol

Found it on our way to the ski station to have some fun with our son with a ledge ! Thank you for the cache / Merci pour la cache. Greetings from France !

A nice find on my way home after a quick climb up Great Pinnacle

A quick find on the way to the snow today

found with, ceeg, teehee and ronwestnz cant remember date tho, TFTC

Great excuse to stop on a gloroius day - not a cloud in the sky on this side of the mountain ! Found with Ronwestnz, Kingkeeper and Teehee

Hunting with ceeg, kingkeeper, teehee.
Nice driveby cache. Awesome day to be out.

We love this road sign

Dark by the time we got this one and everyone had gone home. We had been tramping for the day as it looked the better option than to go skiing considering the weather.

No one stopped this time and interrupted my efforts and a quick and easy find at -1 degrees. Normally a great view here but too much cloud this morning. TFTC

nice quick find.